OP is back. I am now using Debian 12 on the same computer and having a SSD drives (same as before), but this software (baloo 5.103.0) should not noticeable slowdown the computer even if I have HDDs.
But it is causing noticeable slowdown (iowait), as before "balooctl disable" and "balooctl suspend" does not make it stop.
WHAT TO DO:
1) So one can try "killall baloo_file" or sudo kill -9 baloopidhere # kill baloo PID returned by "ps aux"
2) Other option is trying to make it run at night hoping that it will not run during the day: crontab -e; paste: 0 0 * * * balooctl check
That is what I did and enabled "balooctl enable". So I will see if it baloo will do its work during the night and not bother during the day.
3) I have now also disabled hidden files/folders indexing as someone said it may hurt performance + excluded some folder with many files not needed to be indexed (app launcher menu, search for "search", click "File search").
Btw. baloo seems to be running under lowest nice/ionice priority despite significantly slowing down regular processes:
baloo_file process has a CPU nice value “19 (least favorable to the process)” per the htop command output. Regarding disk impact (ionice), i did “ionice -p 3864514” (the number is the pid of the baloo_file process) and it returned: iddle
Per my understanding it means lowest CPU and disk priority. “ionice -h” shows:
$ inxi -DSz
$ df /
$ balooctl status
$ balooctl indexSize
$ baloosearch baloo -d /home # search for baloo configuration files
$ cat /home/user/.config/baloofilerc
$ cat /home/user/.config/baloofileinformationrc
But it is causing noticeable slowdown (iowait), as before "balooctl disable" and "balooctl suspend" does not make it stop.
WHAT TO DO:
1) So one can try "killall baloo_file" or sudo kill -9 baloopidhere # kill baloo PID returned by "ps aux"
2) Other option is trying to make it run at night hoping that it will not run during the day: crontab -e; paste: 0 0 * * * balooctl check
That is what I did and enabled "balooctl enable". So I will see if it baloo will do its work during the night and not bother during the day.
3) I have now also disabled hidden files/folders indexing as someone said it may hurt performance + excluded some folder with many files not needed to be indexed (app launcher menu, search for "search", click "File search").
Btw. baloo seems to be running under lowest nice/ionice priority despite significantly slowing down regular processes:
baloo_file process has a CPU nice value “19 (least favorable to the process)” per the htop command output. Regarding disk impact (ionice), i did “ionice -p 3864514” (the number is the pid of the baloo_file process) and it returned: iddle
Per my understanding it means lowest CPU and disk priority. “ionice -h” shows:
My baloo index is rather large one with 20 million files, 12GB index being on a drive with like 5% of a free space. If you have any more ideas what to try, please kindly share it. Thanks-c, --class <class> name or number of scheduling class,
0: none, 1: realtime, 2: best-effort, 3: idle
-n, --classdata <num> priority (0..7) in the specified scheduling class,
only for the realtime and best-effort classes
$ inxi -DSz
$ df /
$ balooctl status
$ balooctl indexSize
$ baloosearch baloo -d /home # search for baloo configuration files
$ cat /home/user/.config/baloofilerc
$ cat /home/user/.config/baloofileinformationrc
Statistics: Posted by postcd — 2024-10-22 07:03 — Replies 6 — Views 1761
